Cotton-press



(No Model.)

M.- M. SOHERER OOTTON PRESS.

Patented Apr.25,1882.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL M. SOHERER, OF BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS.

COTTON-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,079, dated April 25, 1882,

Application filed auuary 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, MICHAEL M. SGHERER, of Batesville, in the county of Independence and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Presses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in cotton-presses shown and described in Letters Patent No.' 142,517, which were granted to me under date of September 2, 1873; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction relating to different parts of the press.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of my invention with the lint-room removed. Fig. 2 is adetail of the levers. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the press and lint-room, with a side of the lint-room broken away; and Fig. 4 is a detail.

In the Letters Patent referred to I have shown a horizontal press having a follower,

which is operated by means of toggle-levers and ropes connected thereto and adapted to be wound upon a windlass. In this press the levers, which are hinged to opposite sides of the press, so that their ends shall be brought nearly together by winding up the ropes attached to their ends, are constructed with stationary joints near the center thereof and provided with semicircular guides, over which they are made to pass when in operation. In my present invention I have adopted a movable joint for the toggle-levers, consisting of a bolt, 00, connected at its ends to two rods, b, which are attached to the follower A and a guide plate or plates, 0, secured to the forward edge of the levers B, and provided with rods d, which plates and rods are arranged parallel with each other and secured together, respectively, at the ends. The plates and rods extend from near the inner end of the levers to a point beyond the center, and to the bolt a,which is arranged transversely between the plates and rods, is secured the rope e, which passes toward the inner end of the leverover a pulley, f, secured thereto, and back to the outer end of the lever over a pulley, g, secured thereto, whence it passes to the Windlass 0. With this construction, when the press is in operation, thejoints are adapted to slide near the inner ends of the levers when the ropes are drawn, and thus by bringing the fulcrum of the lever near its fixed end the power of the press is greatly increased.

In the patent above referred toI have shown alint-room having avertically-slidin g gravitating cover operated by means of a windlass, ropes, and pulleys. Instead of the slidln g cover, thelint-roomis covered with astationary cover, t', and it contains a vertically-sliding rotating table, 70, which is adapted to be turned by means of a crank, Z, attached to its axis, and .to be raised or lowered by ropes attached to its axis, and passing over pulleys at the top of the lint-room, and wound upon a Windlass, l, at the end of the lint-room. When the rotating table is at its lowest limit it is to be adjusted by bolts, in which position itforms the top of the space, in which the horizontally-movin g follower A moves.

The cotton is received from the gin into the lint-room during the process of baling above the rotary table at m. When asufficient amount of cotton is in the lint-room the rotary table is raised and revolved half a revolution, whereby the cotton in the lint-room is thrown beneath into the space before the horizontal follower, by which it is pressed into a bale in the chamber m. In this manner it is rendered unnecessary to handle the cot-ton in making the bale, nor is it necessary to stop the gin during the process of balin g. A suitable dustflue, n, is formed at the top of the lint-room on the opposite end from the gin, whereby the blast from the gin shall pass out of the lint-room, and thus carry out the dust. The levers are held in a horizontal position by means of chains or rods 0, attached to the ends of a bar, 19, across the top of the press, and to the levers about one-third the distance from the outer end of the lever.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 18-- 1. In a cotton-press, the combination, with the follower A and the levers B, of the bolts (1, guide-plates c, and rods d, inclosing said bolts, and the rods b, connecting the bolts with the said follower, and the ropes e, secured to the bolts a and-passing over pulleys at the inner and outer ends of the levers, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a cotton press, the combination, with the levers B and the ropes e, passing over pul- Y leys at the ends of the levers, of the rods b, connected to the follower at one end and to the ropes at the other, and forming sliding joints with the said levers, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a cotton press, the combination, with the follower A and the followerchamber, of

the lint-room placed above the follower-chamher and having a vertically-sliding rotary table, 7c,which forms the bottom of the lint-room andthe top of thefollower-chamber, and means I 5 for operating the said table, substantially as shown and described.

MICHAEL MOSER SOHERER.

, Witnesses:

URBAN E. FORT,

O. M. MARSHALL,

M. A. WYOOUGH. 

